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130 houses to be repaired

Manama : Municipalities Affairs Undersecretary at the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning, Dr Nabil Mohammed Abu Al Fateh, has announced that the tender of 27 houses included in the Towns and Villages Development Project has been launched.

The new batch of houses adds to 103 houses whose maintenance and revamp contracts had been signed, which raises the number of targeted houses to 130, costing BD 1 million.

Speaking during his field visits to the houses, along with Assistant Undersecretary for Joint Municipal Services, Wael Al-Mubarak, and several municipal officials, Abu Al-Fateh stressed the need to expedite the revamp of houses whose contracts had been signed. The undersecretary affirming the existing cooperation between the Works Ministry and municipal councils in implementing to the Towns and Villages Development Project, noting that it is one of the projects adopted by the Government of Bahrain to support low-income citizens.